I hope your mom got better in German 🇩🇪

Sentence info.

The sentence splits into two parts: the main clause "Ich hoffe" (I hope) and the subordinate clause "deiner Mutter geht es besser" (that your mother is doing better). In the subordinate clause “deiner Mutter” is in the dative case because verbs like “gehen” (when used in this context to talk about someone’s condition) require a dative complement—as in the standard question “Wie geht es dir?” (How are you doing?), where “dir” is dative. Notice that word order can be flexible; the more common variant is “Ich hoffe, dass es deiner Mutter besser geht,” where “dass” introduces a subordinate clause and the verb appears at the end.

A useful tip is to remember the pattern for expressions of hope in German: start with “Ich hoffe, …” and follow with either an independent clause (often with inverted word order) or a “dass” clause where the verb goes to the end. Also, remember that when discussing wellbeing with “gehen,” the person’s name or relation takes the dative case (e.g., “mir,” “dir,” “deiner Mutter”).

Alternate ways to express the same idea include:
• “Ich hoffe, dass es deiner Mutter besser geht.”
• “Ich hoffe, deiner Mutter geht es wieder besser.”
• “Ich wünsche mir, dass es deiner Mutter bald besser geht.”

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